Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

You can take better care of your secret than another can.

Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.

a good reader makes a good book

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a stone; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.